When disasters strike — whether floods, earthquakes, forest fires, or cyclones — success in rescue and relief operations often depends not only on the courage of responders but equally on the quality ...

This story is republished from Grist. Read the original article. As thousands waited on federal government assistance after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, New Orleans residents came up with their own ...

A new report by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) presents a tool for conducting an initial broad-based assessment of the resilience of a country’s health system to ...

SAP SE and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have announced the deployment of an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered disaster risk management system in the ...